Evan Parker & Jean-Marc Foussat Insolence

A meeting of great minds recorded live at the Improtech Festival in Uzeste in summer 2023. Two avant-garde and improvisation titans offer a new chapter in the infinite quest for freedom and absolute beauty. Innocence and Insouciance are sharp and stinging live improvisations by longtime comrades, Parker and Foussat. Elegant, subtle and complex, these pieces immediately rise to the status of eternal documents by these giants.
WIREless for Anthony Wood is a Solo Tenor piece by Parker recorded during The Actual Festival at the London ICA in August 1981 and is a homage to the late Anthony Wood, founder of both The Wire Magazine and The Actual Festival. It is followed and echoed by SLAUGHT return, a contemporaneous assembly piece by Foussat from the original Abattage solo VCS3 session in late 1980.
The collaboration between IRCAM and Bernard Lubat's annual festival in Uzeste has created a space for the next iterations of the great utopian dream that free improvisation represents and celebrates. Evan Parker – May 2024
Quand ils l’improvisent la musique joue toujours familièrement le petit air de la liberté que se permettent ses partenaires. Et comme ils aiment la vie, autant les uns que les autres alors rien ne semble plus facile que d’y trouver le plaisir. Jean-Marc Foussat – May 2024
CREDITS
• Innocence + Insouciance :
++ Evan Parker – soprano saxophone
++ Jean-Marc Foussat – Synthi AKS / jouets / voix
• WIREless for Anthony Wood : Evan Parker – tenor saxophone
• SLAUGHT return : Jean-Marc Foussat – Synthi VCS3
All Recordings, Mix, Editing & Mastering by Jean-Marc Foussat
Lacquer Cut by Frederic Alstadt - Mont Analogue
Special Thanks to Gérard Assayag
Front cover art by Ahmed Nosseir
*[organisé avec le soutien du Conseil Européen de la Recherche pour le projet ERC REACH - Dir. Gérard Assayag, GA #883313]
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